| Class | Date | Topic | Slides | Readings | Homework | Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aug 28 | Course overview; Basics of IR, boolean retrieval | As We May Think, What is a browser?, IIR 1 | HW1 out | ||
| 2 | Aug 30 | Indexing pipeline, tokenization, normalization | IIR 1, IIR 2.0-2.2 | |||
| 3 | Sept 4 | Vector Space Retrieval | IIR 6 | HW1 in | ||
| 4 | Sept 6 | Vector Space Retrieval | IIR 7 | HW2 out | ||
| 5 | Sept 11 | Improving the Index | IIR 2.3-2.4 | |||
| 6 | Sept 13 | Improving the Index (cont'd) | IIR 3, 5.1 | HW2 in | ||
| 7 | Sept 18 | Web Retrieval | IIR 19.1-19.4 The Dirty Little Secrets of Search (NYTimes), Google Penalizes Overstock for Search Tactics (WSJ) | HW3 out | ||
| 8 | Sept 20 | Link Analysis | IIR 21.1-21.2, MMS 5.1; optional: NCM 14.1, 14.3 | |||
| 9 | Sept 25 | Link Analysis | IIR 21.3, MMS 5.5; optional: NCM 14.2 | HW3 in | ||
| 10 | Sept 27 | Quiz 1 [2011 quiz; 2010 midterm; 2010 final; 2008 exam]; Link Analysis, Web Crawling | IIR 20.1-20.2 | HW4 out | ||
| 11 | Oct 2 | Finish Crawling; Start Classification | IIR 13 | |||
| 12 | Oct 4 | Classification | IIR 14 | HW4 in (extended to Friday, Oct 5) | ||
| 13 | Oct 9 | Finish up Classification | HW5 out | |||
| 14 | Oct 11 | Clustering | IIR 16 | |||
| 15 | Oct 16 | Clustering | IIR 17 | HW5 in | ||
| 16 | Oct 18 | Quiz 2; Wrap up Clustering | HW6 out | |||
| 17 | Oct 23 | Recommenders | MMS 9.1-9.3, 9.5 | Project Overview; sample projects | ||
| 18 | Oct 25 | Recommenders | HW6 in | |||
| 19 | Oct 30 | Guest lecture, Learning to Rank | IIR 6.1, 15.4 | Proposal due | ||
| 20 | Nov 1 | Guest lecture, Learning to Rank | ||||
| 21 | Nov 6 | Evaluation | IIR 8 | |||
| 22 | Nov 8 | Quiz 3; Location, location, location | Spatial Variation in Search Engine Queries | |||
| 23 | Nov 13 | Manipulating Search Engines for Fun & Profit, Steve Webb | Checkpoint 1 | |||
| 24 | Nov 15 | Next Problems (a bitly perspective), Brian Eoff | ||||
| 25 | Nov 20 | Twitter, tdmackey | Checkpoint 2 | |||
| Nov 22 (no class) | Thanksgiving | |||||
| 26 | Nov 27 | Course review | ||||
| 27 | Nov 29 | In-class Exam | ||||
| 28 | Dec 4 | Project feedback session | Checkpoint 3 (in class) | |||
| Dec 12 | Final project demos, 1:00pm-3:00pm |